> okay I follow what you're saying and in fact I have no trouble using CLRMAME so
> far, just for QC-ing a certain build.
>
> What occurred to me when scanning the whole ROMset (0.80+0.81) was that whilst I
> had downloaded all the latest ROMs, some older ones have renames or unnecessary
> ROMs removed. So as a different question, once you've checked the entire ROMset,
> is it possible to output a list of any ROMs that were fixed/changed by CLRMAME
> on their own?
>
> If that's possible easily then I can simply maintain a collection of all ROMs,
> download new ones seperately, merge and test them then put all new and fixed
> ROMs seperate onto a CD/DVD for backup, rather than backing up all the ROMs
> again.


well....I do it this way: Before I scan I set all sets to -a and a date/time stamp of e.g. 1/1/2004 00:00. Then I scan/fix everything with settings->preserve archive date/time disabled. So all modified sets will get +a and the current date/time.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro